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The smallest and prettiest book i own
It's a german poetry collection by Goethe
"You I saw, your look replied,
Your sweet felicity, my own,
My heart was with you, at your side,
I breathed for you, for you alone."
~ Welcome and Farewell by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Dreamy Songs based on Literature
Lana del Rey Young and Beautiful – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Taylor Swift Ivy – Emily Dickinson
Ryan Adams Sylvia Plath – Sylvia Plath
Hozier NFWMB – W.B. Yeats
Michael Jacksons Childhood – Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Radiohead Exit Music – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Ruth B Lost Boy – Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Taylor Swift Tolerate it – Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Link to Playlist:
Books like Dorian Gray?
I am looking for good Horror/ Mystery Literature like the Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein or the stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Do you guys have any recommendations for me? Am not as familiar with that genre as i would like to be.
One of the most beautiful classic literature editions 🧡💛💚💙💜
If you are interested in beautiful editions of classic Literature, check out the Penguin Drop Caps series! They have a book in every color of the rainbow for every letter of the Alphabet.
Book recommendations based on your favourite authors
1. Oscar Wilde
Edward St Aubyn - Patrick Melrose
If you love Oscar Wilde i would recommend St. Aubyn's amazing novels. They are full of wit, cunning irony, upper - class critisicm and dry humor.
2. William Shakespeare
Margaret Atwood - Hagseed
Part of the "Hogarth Shakespeare Series" this is a brillant retelling of Shakespeares play the tempest.
3. Lewis Carroll
Michael Ende - Momo
Similar to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Ende takes us on a young girl's magical journey in which she has to bring back the "stolen time".
4. Stephen King
David Mitchell - Slade House
Stephen King himself recommended this suspensful novel about an abnormal house: “Hard to imagine a more finely wrought and chilling tale of the supernatural. One of the rare great ones.”
5. Suzanne Collins
Koushun Takami - Battle Royale
This book has a very similar storyline to Collins great Hunger Games Saga: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing.
6. Jane Austen
Goethe - Elective Affinities
A love story just as sharming and complicated as Jane Austen's beloved works: Eduard and his wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet but idle life in their estate, when their piece is fastly thrown into chaos as he invites his friend the Captain and she invites her niece Ottilie to stay with them: a story of forbidden love begins to grow as they both form attraction to their guests.
I'm looking for illustrated books or special editions of famous novels. Do you guys have any "beautiful books" recommendations?
Famous writers and the books they can't live without
All these answers are taken from BBC's Podcast "Desert Island Discs", where famous artists share the one book they would take with them to a deserted island.
Neil Gaiman - The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Margaret Atwood - Stories from 1001 Arabian Nights
Maggie O'Farrell - Selected Stories by Alice Munro
Colm Toibin - The portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Stephen Fry - Four Quartets by T.S.Eliot
Tennessee Williams - Poetry by Hart Crane
Roald Dahl - The New Oxford Book of English Verse by Helen Gardner
Helen Fielding - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Patricia Highsmith - Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Zadie Smith - Remembrence of Things past by Marcel Proust
To all theatre and book nerds out there: Who is your favourite play writer? (Expect for the good old Willy shakes of course) I need more recommendations.
I think Goethe is hugely underrated!
Books I purchased this month
Unknown Book Recommendation:
The Last March by Robert Falcon Scott - a horrifying true story
"Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."
This is a book that every history buff and Fan of "the Terror" should read. Robert Falcon Scott was one of the very first people that set foot on the South Pole. His personal diary tells the horrifying and fascinating Story of his last expedition: it is a moving tale of a man, who kept his will to survive until his very last breath. Scott was found dead over 100 years ago with this diary beside him, frozen in the antarctic ice.
Booklist for all the Dark Academics:
[Dark Academia book recs of all the different kinds I could think of. It's a long journey. Buckle up.]
The Classic Dark Academic :
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Anything by the Brontë sisters
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (this book birthed Dark Academia)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Bram Stokers Dracula
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
Maurice by EM Forster
Madam Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Good Man is Hard to Find
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Othello by Shakespeare
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Poetry-lover Academic:
Poetry of Baudelaire
Odes of Keats (ALL OF THEM ARE A MUST READ)
Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (especially The Raven)
Shelley's Alastor, Prometheus Unbound, Masque of Anarchy
Kubla Khan by Coleridge
T.S Elliott's Wasteland
all Emily Dickinson poetry but especially 'I felt a funeral in my brain', 'Because I could not stop for death' (read them a thousand times already)
Pablo Neruda's Nothing but Death
Langston Hughes
Tennyson's Lotos eater (underrated gem)
Sylvia Plath poems but special mentions to Lady Lazarus and the Bell jar
Paradise Lost by Milton (if you want to include something about the Devil in your list)
Poems by Sappho
The Contemporary Dark Academic:
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (the origin of Dark Academia)
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Ace of Spades by Amanda Foody (could recommend it a hundred times)
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
If We Were Villains by ML Rio
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Girls are all so nice here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
The Likeness by Tana French
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
One of us is lying by Karen Mcmanus
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Plot by Jean Hanff
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Conversion by Katherine Howe
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A Quaint and Curious Volume
We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Lying Games by Ruth Ware
Black Chalk by Christopher J Yates
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
The Furies by Fernanda Eberstadt
The Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Bad Habits by Charleigh Rose
Good Girls Lie by JT Ellison
Queer Dark Academic:
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (yes, yes, yes it's the gay shit)
Notes on a Scandal (What was she thinking?) by Zoë Heller
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu (lesbian vampire, hell yeah!)
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Maurice by EM Forster
Christabel by Coleridge
Poems by Sappho
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
Ace of Spades by Amanda Foody
The Dark Romantic Academic:
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Likeness by Tana French
The Temple House by Rachel Donohue
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Mythological Dark Academic:
(pardon me for my cluelessness)
I have not really read much about mythology but if Norse mythology is the area of your interest, Neil Gaiman is the God of it. (aka not only Good Omens and American Gods, but also the book 'Norse Mythology')
The Furies by Fernanda Eberstadt
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Circe by Madeline Miller
[Remember: Some of these books have dark academia as their major aspect but most of them have dark academia as their minor aspect, and many of them have been put into the list because I got a dark academia kind of vibe from them. This list is entirely created out of my own reading researches, friendly recommendations, and book recs from reddit, pinterest and the internet in general. If I have gone wrong somewhere or if you want me to add something new, feel free to drop an ask.]
The Reader by Rainer Maria Rilke
Who knows him, this one, whose own face
sinks away out of its being into a second one,
that only the quick turning of whole pages
sometimes forcibly interrupts?
Even his own mother would be uncertain
if that were him, who, together with his shadow, was drenched with reading.
And we, hours to spare, what do we know, how much he fades away, until,
in fatigue, he stops: raising up everything
into himself which has happened in the book below,
with eyes, which, instead of taking, nudge up
against the full and finished world as they give:
like quiet children, who, playing alone,
suddenly experience that which is at hand;
and yet his features, ordered as they were,
remain now forever rearranged.
Great classic Books under 200 pages
1. The turn of the screw by Henry James (108 pages)
One of the must read gothic horror tales: The story begins when a governess arrives at an English country estate to look two young children, Miles and Flora. At first, everything appears normal then one night a ghost appears before the governess.
2. Letters to a young poet by Rilke (80 pages)
A must read for everyone who loves poetry and writing: In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke, replied to the novice in this series of letters
3. The Aleph and other stories by Borges (200 pages)
A great collectio of magical storys full of phlosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises: "The Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping, or confusion."
4. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (180 pages)
Hunger has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of psychology-driven literature. Set in late 19th-century Kristiania, the novel recounts the adventures of a starving young man whose sense of reality is slowly fading away.
5. The Sandman by E.T.A Hoffmann (40 pages)
A classic short story for every gothic horror lover. Read it and be prepared to get your mind blown.
6. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (120 pages)
Driven to mental anguish as the result of total isolation by the Nazis, Dr B, a securities expert hiding valuable assets of the nobility from the new regime, maintains his sanity only through the theft of a book of past masters' chess games which he plays endlessly, voraciously learning each one until they overwhelm his imagination to such an extent that he becomes consumed by chess. Chess Story is Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942.
7. Bartleby, the scrivener by Herman Melville (70 pages)
Another great short story that will really make you think about capitalism and a man's free will: Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it is, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce and overworking finally just said, "I would prefer not to"?
8. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (160 pages)
This haunting and controversial novel is Baldwin's most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses: After proposing to a young woman, he falls into an affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.
9. The Stranger by Albert Camus (123 pages)
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."
10. We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson (160 pages)
Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone. 'Her greatest book ... ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go' - Donna Tartt
Will these hands never be clean? ~ Lady Macbeth
I created this Poster for one of my favourite movies of all time
All I want is a library and a fancy bath, the rest of the house doesn't matter
This old children’s book is kinda similar to WARRIORS by Erin Hunter. An English house cat, named Tom, goes into the forest. He runs into a mother fox and is chased away. He then gets chased off by a badger guarding her babies. Tom later meets a “she-cat” and has kittens with her.
I know, I know! It’s not VERY similar but the art style reminds me of the old book covers. Perhaps this book inspired the Erins in some way.